Olympics Indian Contingent Miscellany

Here is a detailed recap of Indian athletes on day 1. Archer Champia did well (got seeded/ranked 2). The women archers did not get ranked well, however, it is now an elimination round - so anything is possible. A boxer (Vijender Kumar), the rower(Bajrang Thaker), and the badminton player (Saina Nehwal) qualified for the next rounds. A couple of shooting prospects (Manavjit and Mansher) remain in contention but it will be an uphill task.

Here is the official website, to see the upcoming events and the results thus far. It is actually quite good, and even during the event you can see intermediate results etc. IOA please take note.

And a note on the coverage on DD sports - the art of segue is lost on them. DD seemed clueless on how to transition between events. For example, during the last 3 Kms of a cycling event (which would have taken 5 mins or so to decide the gold), they decided to switch events - first to an interview with Kalmadi! They came back and announced the gold medalist, thereby depriving us of the suspense, but not letting us know who won the silver & bronze, so results were incomplete. Then DD took us to some qualifying event after another. Maybe they showed it again, I don't know - but by then I lost interest, I actually checked the results on the web.